Glenn Linderman <v+pyt...@g.nevcal.com> added the comment: I said: I wonder what result you get with the same browser, at the web page http://rishida.net/tools/conversion/ by entering the euro symbol into the Characters entry field, and choosing convert.
But I couldn't wait, so I ran a test with € in one of my input boxes, using Firefox, a FORM as: <form enctype="multipart/form-data" method="post" action="... and below is the Live Headers report. I note several things that seem relevant to this issue. 1) The character encoding isn't specified anywhere. In fact, the only content-type specification is the multipart/form-data in the environment. 2) Except for the Euro, everything in the data stream is ASCII (but could be ISO-8859-1, or latin-1). 3) Looking separately at the byte stream read by my experimental version of cgi.py which prints the bytes as they are read, I see that the encoding of the Euro is UTF-8: '\xe2\x82\xac' 4) Because of 1), it is clear that default encoding types must be applied, and it is clear that Firefox provides UTF-8. User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101203 Firefox/3.6.13 Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8 Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5 Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7 Keep-Alive: 115 Connection: keep-alive Content-Type: multipart/form-data; boundary=---------------------------1650566221634 Content-Length: 527 -----------------------------1650566221634 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="type" summary -----------------------------1650566221634 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="submit" Search -----------------------------1650566221634 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="pre" € -----------------------------1650566221634 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="part" -----------------------------1650566221634 Content-Disposition: form-data; name="key" -----------------------------1650566221634-- ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue4953> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
